H. Walker H. Lewis ’25

Walker Lewis, who died May 19, 1999, was born in Hoboken, N.J., in 1903. He was directly descended from Fielding Lewis, the husband of George Washington's sister Betty. He was also descended from Martha Washington, Revolutionary War General Hugh Mercer, Confederate General Henry Harrison Walker, and John C. Stevens, for whom the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken is named.

A loyal member of our class, he was a member of Quadrangle Club. After graduating from Harvard law school he became a member of Piper, Carego. He was a general partner of Potomac Telephone Co.

His great avocation was as an historian. He published a life of Chief Justice Roger Taney and one of Daniel Webster. He wrote a history of the U.S. District Court of Maryland that was published by the Maryland Legal Assn. in 1997. He served as a member of the judge advocate general staff during WWII. He was a long-term resident of Martha's Vineyard, where he sailed his 22-ft. sloop every summer. He was a member of the Hamilton Street Club and the Lawyers Round Table Club. He was a communicant of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer.

He is survived by his wife, Elinore, his sons, Edwin '61, John '64, Fielding, and Henry '69.

The Class of 1925